Jack Henry the Duck

Jack Henry the Duck is a young little guy, living with his family in the midst of our very own footsteps. The Duck family has a happy life, but one that might be much easier to lead in a less peopled location. Jack Henry’s mother will teach him everything he needs to know to survive, but he will face most difficult challenges that ducks in wild areas never know. He will learn to see great empty space before he crosses roads and trails. When he swims, he will avoid obstacles that are of no use at all to a duck. He will seek only living things for lunch in his creek - bugs are quite tasty, but plastic will make Jack Henry sick. If the air doesn’t smell just right and fresh, our little guy will stay low until the odorous wind passes. Sometimes that can take days - Jack Henry feels like he has shrunk in stature by the time he can stretch toward the sky. Life for a duck in the Land of Terra can be quite unpredictable.

You might think that Jack Henry’s family should just migrate to a less noisy place where the wild ducks live, but this is much more complicated than you might think. The ducks in Jack Henry’s family are comfortable in the home of many generations of ducks before their own time. It isn’t so easy to pack up and leave the place that you call home. Sometimes the comforts of known far outweigh the benefits found in another part of Terra. Skill sets differ, known is known - daily travels, food supplies, dangers - all are quite different from one environment to another. Perhaps we just don’t understand the life of another duck …